Syria’s former permanent representative to the UN, Bashar Jaafari, has requested asylum in Russia, signaling a potential shift in Syria's diplomatic landscape. Syria's ambassador to Moscow has ...

New York, SANA – Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari criticized the UN meetings on the humanitarian situation in Syria as being politicized and not aimed at helping the Syrian ...

Ibrahim al-Jaafari is no strongman. He speaks so softly that he often seems to be whispering to himself. Even when audible, he can be hard to understand: his vocabulary is drawn heavily from classical ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Ayad Allawi news every morning. Allies of Ibrahim al-Jaafari on Thursday rejected a push by Iraq’s other main political blocs to replace ...

Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Iraq's interim vice president, is poised to become the country's next prime minister after the United Iraqi Alliance, a Shiite coalition, nominated him. Kwame Holman provides ...

Here's a look at the life of Ibrahim al-Jaafari, current foreign minister and former prime minister of Iraq. Here's a look at the life of Ibrahim al-Jaafari, current foreign minister and former prime ...

About five months ago, Haya Dweidary, a 27-year-old graduate student at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, was approached by an administrator and asked what she knew ...

New York, SANA-Syria’s Permanent Envoy to the UN, Bashar al-Jaafari, said on Monday that it is not possible to end the suffering of the Syrians through political blackmail, but through combating ...

The visit of Condi Rice and Jack Straw to Baghdad may have sounded the death knell on the candidacy of Ibrahim Jaafari for a second term as prime minister. Rice made clear the U.S. disdain for a ...

1968 - Joins the Islamic Dawa Party. Al Dawa (formally the Hizb al-Dawa al-Islamiyya or the Islamic Call Party), is a Shia Islamist party with close connections with Iran’s clerical regime. 1980 - ...